JS is a tool. It's not intrinsically evil, but it cannot easily be constrained to be good. I'll come back to that. Your book-search idea is interesting. Anothe

JS is a tool. It's not intrinsically evil, but it cannot easily be constrained to be good. I'll come back to that. Your book-search idea is interesting. Another way is simply to display the list on the web page, minimally marked up, and let the user search using the text search in all browsers - no JS needed. Might be a sizeable page though. There may be better ways that don't involve sucking bandwidth to deliver a huge list. Bloom filters? I dunno, needs thought and I'm busy - what do you reckon? But your idea still needs JS. I'm fine with JS if I knew it was doing something minimal and it was highly constrained. That's the problem, not so much running JS as trusting it when it comes from somewhere unknown. Keep up the good thinking though!